Painting outside the lines : patterns of creativity in modern art

270 Pages·2001·0.943 MB·English

by  Galenson, David W

Painting
outside the Lines

Painting
outside the Lines
Patterns of Creativity in Modern Art
D AV I D W. G A L E N S O N
H A R V A R D U N I V E R S I T Y P R E S S
CAMBRIDGE, MASSACHUSETTS LONDON, ENGLAND 2001
Copyright © 2001 by the President and Fellows ofHarvard College
All rights reserved
Printed in the United States ofAmerica
Library ofCongress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Galenson,David W.
Painting outside the lines :patterns ofcreativity in modern art / David W.Galenson.
p. cm.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN 0-674-00612-7 (alk.paper)
1.Painting,American—20th century. 2.Painting,French—19th century.
3.Painting,French—20th century. 4.Creation (Literary,artistic,etc.)—History.
5.Painters—Psychology. I.Title.
ND212 .G25 2001
750(cid:1).1(cid:1)9—dc21
2001024755
Tothememoryofmyfather

CONTENTS
Preface xiii
1 The Problem 1
2 Artists,Ages,and Prices 12
3 Market Values and Critical Evaluation 23
4 Importance in Modern Art 32
5 Experimental and Conceptual Innovators 49
6 Paris from Manet to Miró 75
7 New York from Marin to Minimalism 112
8 Intergenerational Conºict in Modern Art 147
9 The Changing Careers ofModern Artists 161
Appendixes
A The Critical Evaluation ofthe Careers ofFrench Artists 173
B The Critical Evaluation ofthe Careers ofAmerican Artists 181
C Ages ofAmerican Artists at the Time ofTheir First One-Person
C New York Gallery Exhibitions 191
Notes 193
Bibliography 225
Credits 241
Index 243

ILLUSTRATIONS
1.Paul Cézanne,Portrait ofthe Artist with a Beret,1898–1900 2
2.Pablo Picasso,Self-Portrait with a Palette,1906 3
3.Paul Cézanne,Mont Ste-Victoire,1904 55
4.Pablo Picasso,Les Demoiselles d’Avignon,1907 62
5.Paul Gauguin,The Vision after the Sermon,1888 73
6.Edouard Manet,Le Déjeuner sur l’herbe,1863 78
7.Edouard Manet,Bar at the Folies-Bergère,1882 79
8.Claude Monet,La Grenouillère,1869 86
9.Pierre-Auguste Renoir,La Grenouillère,1869 87
10.Georges Seurat,Sunday Afternoon on the Island
ofthe Grande Jatte,1886 94
11.Marcel Duchamp,Nude Descending a Staircase,No.2,1912 110
12.Jackson Pollock at work onOne: Number 31,1950 123
13.Mark Rothko,East Hampton,1964 126
14.Jasper Johns,Target with Plaster Casts,1955 133
15.Frank Stella,The Marriage ofReason and Squalor,II,1959 135
16.Frank Stella at work onGetty Tomb (Second Version),1959 136
17.Installation crew for Sol LeWitt wall drawing,Madrid,1996 137
18.Robert Rauschenberg,Factum I,1957 142
19.Robert Rauschenberg,Factum II,1957 143